CARDINAL Giovanni Battista Re has spent over 50 years serving in the Roman Curia. The 91-year-old Dean of the College of Cardinals has been tasked with leading Pope Francis' funeral in Vatican City.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re used the homily to criticize the president, who was seated in the front row to hear it. European Editor at Large President Donald Trump may have gotten his front row ...

The dean, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, will preside over Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday, but unlike Mr. Fiennes’s character, he will not run the conclave. He will not even attend ...

FULL TEXT: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re’s homily for the Mass for the election of the Supreme Pontiff. “The outpouring of affection that we have witnessed ... tells us how much the profound ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, delivered a lengthy and highly personal homily during the service at the Vatican. "He was a pope among the people ...

Cardinal's sermon highlights pope's favourite political themes Giovanni Battista Re also stresses pope's popularity 'Pope Francis truly shared the anxieties, sufferings and hopes of this time ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re remembered Pope Francis as a pope of the people — a pastor who knew how to communicate to the “least among us” with an informal, spontaneous style. At 91 ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, 91, was born in Brescia, Italy, and has spent five decades serving in the Roman curia. In January, he became the dean of the College of Cardinals, the most senior ...